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Wednesday Jul 17, 2013

Hello all. I’m Lu. As a fresh graduate I joined in Oracle in
April 2013 in our Oracle China offices. To be honest, I was not sure whether I
made the right choice for me to work for Oracle at the beginning. But after
three months, I realize that this is really a huge lucky choice and definitely
the right choice. :P Let me explain.

At first and as a fresh graduate, I want to introduce the
best thing so far for recent Oracle Graduates – The Oracle
College Hire Program (All the graduates are divide into classes to attend
this program). In official words, this program helps us understand Oracle’s
culture and value; it helps get new college hires quickly acclimated and
productive on new and innovative work; it provides meaningful events that
engage new college hires and contributes to their retention; it gets college
hires so motivated about Oracle that they act as ambassadors of Oracle to their
alma mater.

Actually, these sentences are too official that I cannot
quite understand what they mean. But in the past two months, what this program
means to us is Play, Play and Play :D. Also the program gives us a lot help on
our work, but this is ‘Top Secret’, so I cannot talk more. Only one, it makes
us happy working here. OK, let’s focus on the Play’ part.

In the first activity, Class Kick Off, we went to the Great
Wall in ChengDe and we got a courtyard house as our base at the foot of the
hill. In the daytime of first day, we climbed the Great Wall...

Thursday Apr 11, 2013

Hi! My name is Ionuț and I am the Manager of the Product Development IT team based in Romania. As is introduction time, I will also tell you something about me: I have always liked good stories, with passionate people chasing their goals and fulfilling their passions.

So I’d like to take this opportunity to tell you a story

It is about a handful of people who started a new team, with it’s own culture and a new friendship. Each came with the best skills they had and strived to learn the ones they needed. Some came with database skills and learned programming in scripting languages (Perl, KSH), others came with Java Enterprise skills and made those flourish by developing new JavaEE applications, but also stepped up to help others do scripting and operating system administration and learnt new languages.

Others joined with all sorts of qualities, like scripting, database administration, sql programming, user-interface programming skills like PHP and JQuery and others came with Linux knowledge. Some knew more, others less. But they all found that they could learn from each other and from the experience they had...

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